The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1887-08-31

Commissioner, George V. Payne, and
purchased by Mr.. J. II. Hughes, o.
Franklin county, at $3.50 per acre
Capt. Nat. s. Offutt, auctioneer.-
r. Weston, New York City, has
bought.fr the estate of Alden Gold
smith, WashingtonvilIe, n. Y, the
stallion Domestic 6l85, foaled in 1880,
bay, by Volunteer SIS; dam Godivs, by
Godfrey Patchen 80; I'd dam Faustins,
by Volunteer 55.-price, Sc, $50.
s. Mcmillan, New York City, has
bought f,Om the estate of Alden Gold
smith, WashingtOnville, New York,
the stallion Sentry 6lS6, foaled IN 1888,
bay, by CASTELAR, 1862, dam Lively, by
WOburn $40; 3nd dam Silvertail, the
dam of Driver, 2:l9!, by Seely's Amer
lean Star l4-price, 81 400.
The raising of grasses or hay Is be-
coming more and more common 10 the
West every year. Many of the States
which were called Western Stotes are
no longer such now. Wide expanse of
prairire has been cut up into farms,
and what was called an inexhaustible
soil is to-day admitted TO be like all
soils, capable of exhaustion. On these
lands many farmers have come to
realize that continual cropping with
grain is final mpOvershment, and they
are adopting the practice of raising
grasses to a greater or less extent, as
have their ancestors in the New Eng
land States for 100 years, and in the
mother countries for centuries.-Farm
and Home.
Oats of this seasons growth, until
thoroughly dried, are laxative. So
also is new hay. The two together are
apt to give horses the scOurs when
changed suddenly to them from dry
feed. 1t is better, where new hay is
fed, to pay an increase price for old
oats, and thus keep the team in work
ing condition. The higher price is well
repaid in the increased nutrition and
strength that old oats will give work
ing team. Where horses are not at
work they need Few oats, while q little
laxativeness while resting does not
hurt them. 1t is while hard at work
that inferior feed has its. worst effect in
raducinor oOpditiou
In some localities the black smut in
corn is often the cause of serious loss.
1t is worst on land where the crop has
been planted several years in success
ion, showing that the germs live over
winter i'm the soil where they fall. 1t is
a fungus hard to get rid of where it has
a fOOt-hOld. The ears or stalks affected
will lie found early bursting with sap,
and as the spores have not yet ripened
so as to become easily detached, these
diseased specimens may be removed
without much danger of spreading the
Infection. Later in the season the
fungus bursts, and its black dust is scat
tered by winds, whence it gets on the
stalks and into the manure pile.
The success of many farmers is as
much due to their carefulIness in saw
ing odds and ends, and making the
most of what is considered Of little
value, as from regular crops. These
by-prOducts, having less competition,
are often the most profitable. 1t pays
to be on the lookout for such chances,
having, of course, due regard to soil,
location and general adaptabilily of the
farmer to attending to little matters.
This is, after all, the secret Ofsuccess in
nearly every kind of business as well
as farming. Doing things by whole
sale seems very fine, but in most cast s
it is counteracted by innumerable los
ses in the smaller details.-American
Cullivator.